WATCH NOW: Faction’s This is Home Will Blow Your Mind

Anyone with a pair of eyes has noticed that Faction Skis has quietly taken the ski industry by storm for the last 12 years. Not just with gear, but with groundbreaking video content to go along with it. It started with those ridiculous Candide Thovex edits, morphed into a full-on web series, and now has evolved to their first feature-length film. To Faction, it’s always been about the athletes, and oh boy is their roster stacked. From big mountain masters Johnny Collinson and Sam Anthamatten, to BC pillow experts Duncan Adams and Adam Delorme, to the skiing prodigies that are the Sildaru twins, and the grandaddy of it all Candide Thovex, they’re all there, with several new names to add to the list.

Watching young gun Henry Sildaru chase Candide through La Clusaz might be the best thing to ever happen in a ski film. Faction Collective photo.

This is Home was filmed all over the world, from pow skiing in Utah and Montana to an unforgettable park session in the Czech Republic, and finally bringing the crew back home to where it all started: the Alps.

If you’ve seen anything from their past, Faction’s take on the feature ski film shouldn’t surprise you: it’s non-stop full-on shredding that will blow your mind more than once. That being said, kick back, relax, and enjoy the world premiere of This is Home.

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Forget high winds on chairlifts, like what happened in the Alps earlier this year. According to news sources in Georgia, a ski-lift accident has left eleven people injured when the chair’s brakes failed and sent passengers sliding backwards down the hill. The accident occurred at Georgia’s popular Gudauri ski resort, near the capital Tbilisi, this morning.
Video footage from onlookers shows some passengers jumping off the lift, while others are flung violently from the chair as it whipped

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For those who grew up on the West Coast—like myself—I always heard the stereotypical description that slopes back East were "icy." Well, you can thank the Ski The East team for exposing you sneaky liars. Sure there might be ice–BUT–everyone glosses over the fact that if you time it right, there's plenty of pow to be found too. In their most recent edit of the "Promised Land" series, Ski The East also gets their fair share of pow, scoring big in Stowe, Vermont. Watch as the crew shreds

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One of skiing's dirty little secrets is that–at its highest levels–the sport is, well, dirty. Despite being a sport that relies entirely on an increasingly fickle and unpredictable climate–and one in which many of the most prominent athletes are advocates for environmental activism–going out and getting shots can leave a pretty large carbon footprint. Helis, snowmobiles and international flights all have two things in common: They burn a ton of fuel and are used to film damn near every ski